These people who hate the confederate flag still believe that the people who died under it, died for slavery.
Such ignorance of history.
I know that there were some who did, but I haven’t heard of a single son of the south fighting for slavery.
There is no question that slavery was an element of the events that sparked the war.
Lincoln stumbled into a war but never doubted that he was acting with sufficient authority. He and Grant and Sherman chose to end that war as soon as and Johnston surrendered their armies, having accepted the verdict of war. Then Lincoln was shot and the Northern radicals pushed the issue beyond mere political capitulation to social revolution by disenfranchising the white majority in favor of a white majority raised to power by the votes of what was most states, a black majority. That situation could not last given that the great majority of Northerners felt little sympathy for the blacks. by 1876, the white majority in the south had gained control of the governments of the former Confederate states. The South had not been able to create a nation separate from the north but Reconstruction nonetheless had done more than the war to create national feelings in the South, and in the 19th century, nationalism was a a sentiment too strong to allow much tolerance for other nationalities. Even the European immigrants, at least those not from northern Europe, were not really welcomed, and their suffered as much, at least economically, as the blacks did, the difference in suffering being one of degree not kind. Blacks are naturally so focused on their own hardships to realize how far from equality other national minorities were suffering. Not until after the second World War did anything like equality emerge even among the whites, and blacks might do the hard work of trying to put themselves in the shoes of others who suffered property and discrimination.